Genre - Elingtons usual Jungle Style.

Structure:

Intro (chorus 1) - Bars 1 - 12
Appogiatua, 12 bar blues style. Muted Trumpets long melodic lines. Use of pitch bends.Chord progression - BbM(4), EbM(2), BbM(2), F7(2), Bb(2), EbM(2), BbM(1)

Sax Section (chorus 2) - Bars 13 - 28
16 bars. Different chord progression. Alto Sax plays lead melodies.Faster melodic rythem, cross phrasing.

Trumpet Solo (chorus 3) - Bars 29 - 52
12 bar blues style, techniques: Plunger mute and growls, characterised effects of jungle style, chord substitution: Cm7, Am, F7

Piano (chorus 4) - Bars 53-64
1 bar pick up to fill the gap at the end of the trumpet solo, runs through circle of fifths: Bb7 - D7 - G7 - C7 - F7 - Bb7

Trombone (chorus 5) - Bars 65-75
Use of shorter motifs to give an urgent fee, techniques: Trombone uses plunger mute

Trumpet (chorus 6) - Bars 76-86
Use of shorter motifs, more use of plunger mute, fast repeated notes, use of off beat drum accents bars 78-80 creating syncopation

Tutti (coda) - Bars 87-90
Quotation from chopins 'funeral march' - represents relationships between black and white people (most of the song sounds possitve representing improvement, however the 'funeral march' represents things still not being very good)